Virgil

"I sing of arms and of a man: his fate had made him fugitive: he was the first to journey from the coasts of Troy as far as Italy and the Lavinian shores Across the lands and waters he was battered beneath the violence of the high ones for the savage Juno's unforgetting anger."

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Source: Virgil, Barry Moser, Allen Mandelbaum (2007). “The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation”, p.1, Univ of California Press

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Virgil was a Roman poet known for his epic work, the Aeneid, which explores themes of fate, duty, and the human experience.

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